The 20 Christmas Movies With the Most “Profanity”

Christmas movies are usually content for the whole family: they abound with sweetened couples, innocent jokes, unforgettable endings that appeal to easy tears. But they can also be comedies that are a little more…loose.

Language site Preply recently analyzed 60 scripts from 60 popular Christmas movies to see which one had the most “vulgarity” or “profanity”. The result was surprising: the first 1 has more than 250 insults to his credit.

The Christmas movie with the most profanity is Bad Santa, a 2003 Terry Zwigoff comedy based on a story by the Coen brothers. has 255.

The premise promised it. In a not-so-holy Santa Claus, Billy Bob Thorton He plays a delinquent alcoholic fake Santa who works at a mall with a partner who plays an elf.

Second place goes to The referee (The Ref), another Christmas-tinged comedy. The peculiarity is that the amount of “profanity” in The Referee is quite far from A Not So Holy Santa. She is 86 years old.

The 1994 film is about a professional thief who, on Christmas Eve, takes a married couple hostage who won’t stop arguing with each other, forcing him to mediate the relationship.

The top 3 is completed with best care (Better Watch Out), a little-known Australian Christmas horror film. It has 82 “curses”.

While it has touches of comedy, Best Watch Out follows the story of two children (a nanny and the young man she cares for) who must defend their home after being raided by strangers.

The plot of the previous film is very reminiscent of that of My poor little angel (Home Alone). So we ask ourselves: How many “bad words” does this undisputed classic of all Christmas have? 9only 9. It is in position 20.

Here, the complete top 20 of the Christmas movies with the most “curse words” and how many their characters say.

first 20

1. An unholy Santa Claus (2003) / 255 swear words
2. The referee (1994) / 86 profanity
3. best care (2016) / 82 swear words
4. Die Hard (1988) / 77 profanity
5. Just friends (2005) / 46 swear words
6. Black Christmas (1974) / 39 profanity
7. Exchange places (1983) / 37 profanity
8. Krampus (2015) / 37 swear words
9. I really love (2003) / 36 swear words
10. The family man (2000) / 32 swear words
11. Fat man (2020) / 25 swear words
12. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) / 23 swear words
13. last Christmas (2019) / 18 bad words
14. scrooged (1988) / 17 swear words
15. Batman returns (1992) / 14 swear words
16. Shazam! (2019) / 14 bad words
17. Christmas survived (2004) / 14 bad words
18. Fluke (2001) / 13 swear words
19. A Christmas story (1983) / 11 bad words
20. My poor angel (1990) / 9 swear words